These knit sweater bottle toppers are too cute!! Add a nice bottle of wine, cooking oil or a delicious smelling lotion and you have the perfect hostess gift! Choose from 4 designs.
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As I write this it is reaching 80 degrees and humidity is hovering around 74%. I'm sweating and it's the end of September. It's hard to believe that October is right around the corner.
If you or someone you know has an October birthday, your birth sign is Libra --September 23 - October 23. You are charming, perceptive, diplomatic, pleasant and refined. Does this sound like the Libra you know?
The October Birth Flower is the Marigold. The meaning of Marigold is sorrow or sympathy. If this was my birthday month I wouldn't like to receive Marigolds--would you? They are a pretty fall flower though.
The October birthstone is the Opal. The traditional properties closely associated with the Opal birthstone are hope, innocence and purity together with happiness, faithfulness, loyalty and confidence. The opal is also given to commemorate a 14th wedding anniversary, opal stands almost alone among gemstones for it's non-crystalline nature. The multi-colored stones have a rich and varied history, and were collected by ancients aroundthe world. Romans called them "Cupid paederos" meaning a child is as beautiful as love. They believd that opals fell to earth in a flash of lightening.
Although glee gifts does not carry Marigolds, nor opals, we do have many other gifts for the birthday girl in your life. Stop by soon to see what's new, or just to chat!
The John Medeiros Jewelry collection is featured at glee gifts, Mansfield. I LOVE it and hope you do too!
Why choose John Medeiros Jewelry?
Click here to view the entire collection.
glee gifts, Mansfield Crossing
together with
Attractions Hair Salon, Mansfield
cordially invite you to our
Fabulous
Feather Event!!
Saturday September 10th
12 - 3 pm
Get your own feather hair extensions by Kendra and Lorraine from Attractions Hair Salon
3 for $30 (a $45 value)
FREE feather earrings with any purchase over $10.00 from glee gifts
FREE Raffles for glee merchandise
FREE Drawings for Hair and Nail Services
Live Music by Liz and Danielle
Stop by to experience this fall's hottest new trend!!
Gift giving has long been a favorite subject for studies on human behavior with psychologists, anthropologists, economists and marketers all weighing in. They have found that giving gifts is a surprisingly complex and important part of human interaction, helping to define relationships and strengthen bonds with family and friends. Indeed, psychologists say it is often the giver, rather than the recipient, who reaps the biggest psychological gains from a gift. Frustrated by crowds, traffic and commercialism, people can be tempted during the Christmas season to opt out of gift giving altogether. A 2005 survey showed that four out of five Americans think the holidays are too materialistic, according to the Center for a New American Dream, which promotes responsible consumption.
But while it’s reasonable to cut back on spending during the holidays, psychologists say that banning the gift exchange with loved ones is not the best solution. People who refuse to accept or exchange gifts during the holidays, these experts say, may be missing out on an important connection with family and friends.
“That doesn’t do a service to the relationship,” said Ellen J. Langer, a Harvard psychology a professor. “If I don’t let you give me a gift, then I’m not encouraging you to think about me and think about things I like. I am preventing you from experiencing the joy of engaging in all those activities. You do people a disservice by not giving them the gift of giving.”
Some researchers believe evolutionary forces may have favored gift giving. Men who were the most generous may have had the most reproductive success with women. (Notably, the use of food in exchange for sexual access and grooming has been documented in our closest ape relative, the chimpanzee.) Women who were skilled at giving — be it extra food or a well-fitted pelt — helped sustain the family provider as well as her children.
Margaret Rucker, a consumer psychologist at the University of California, Davis, says men are typically more price-conscious and practical when it comes to the gifts they give and get, while women tend to be more concerned about giving and receiving gifts with emotional significance.
Gender differences in gift giving seem to emerge early in life. Researchers at Loyola University Chicago studied 3- and 4-year-olds at a day-care center, all of whom had attended the same birthday party. The girls typically went shopping with their mothers and helped select and wrap the gift. Boys, meanwhile, were often unaware of what the gift was. “They’d say, ‘I took a nap while my mom went shopping for it,’” said Mary Ann McGrath, the associate dean of the graduate school of business at Loyola.
Gift giving is often the most obvious way a partner can show interest, strengthen a bond or even signal that a relationship should end. One colleague of Dr. Rucker’s noted that she knew her marriage was over when her husband handed her a gift in a brown grocery bag.
People who stop giving gifts lose out on important social cues, researchers say. “Who is on your gift list is telling you who is important in your life,” Dr. McGrath said. “It says who is more important and who is less important.”
But the biggest effect of gift giving may be on ourselves. Giving to others reinforces our feelings for them and makes us feel effective and caring, Dr. Langer said.
Test your gift-giving Etiguette:
